Speaking things into existence

One “must” for this week

The skills we think make us irreplaceable might not be the ones that actually do.

In a candid interview, AI researcher Karina Nguyen reveals that while artificial intelligence is mastering traditionally valued 'hard skills' like analysis and writing, it's struggling with human abilities we often take for granted.

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Principle 2: Think of yourself as a director, not a carpenter. When we work with tools, we are trained to think of them as an extension of us. A carpenter swings a hammer and gets one step closer to completing a house. He or she knows what the hammer will do each time it swings, and works accordingly. This metaphor breaks down when it comes to tool

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Knowledge already exists all around us in abundance. We are changing how people take in, handle, contextualize, and deploy that knowledge at the most practical level. We are building the cognitive infrastructure of knowledge work – not the devices or apps they run on, but the “mental software” running on people’s minds that allows them to use those... See more

Previous eras of creativity have mostly looked a bit like sculpting. A sculptor takes a block of material and carves it, slowly but surely, into shape. Nothing happens without her hand. Even when an assistant is involved, the sculptor pores over the project, because their human input is important at every point of the process. So too with writing, ... See more

If you think about it, AI has digested the entirety of human knowledge but lacks the lived experience to make it meaningful. It's like a tourist who's read every guidebook but never actually visited the country. Technically informed but missing the scents, the sounds, the subtle social cues that bring true understanding. It can mimic but not origi

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